After reading two interesting articles leaves me with a notion to blog about this and my personal thoughts on it too. Lately, it has dawned on me that the world is filled with inspiring people. Some are out in the open while others are nurturing their inspiration cells just waiting to be found in time to come. I truly believe, every individual is inspiring in one way or another. I think I can learn a lot from everyone only taking in whatever necessary, of course.
Steve Jobs. What a man! Well, my association with him is mostly Apple; which meant Ipod, Pixar; which meant Toy Story and a whole bunch of recent ones. Recently, Steve Jobs was invited to speak at Stanford University's 114th Commencement on Sunday in Stanford Stadium.
I'll now put down my favourite bits of the article.
I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
Steve Jobs. What a man! Well, my association with him is mostly Apple; which meant Ipod, Pixar; which meant Toy Story and a whole bunch of recent ones. Recently, Steve Jobs was invited to speak at Stanford University's 114th Commencement on Sunday in Stanford Stadium.
I'll now put down my favourite bits of the article.
I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
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